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1 Isurumuni Rock Temple J.B. Disanayaka Professor Emeritus University of Colombo Photo Artist Panduka De Silva A SUMITHA BOOK
2 Isurumuni Rock Temple First Edition: 2016 All rights Reserved Text JB Disanayaka Photographs Panduka de Silva ISBN Published by: Sumitha Publishers (Pvt) Limited. Telephone : Printed by: Sridevi Printers (Pvt) Limited. 27, Papiliyana Road, Nadimala, Dehiwala. Telephone :
3 Contents 1. Anuradhapura 7 2. The Eight Sacred Sites Isurumuniya The Temple of the Rain Clouds : Mē gha gi ri Onto the Sacred Cave, Step by Step The Moonstone : Sa nda ka da pa ha na The Gurad Stone : Mu ra ga la The Balustrade : Ko ra vak ga la The Cave Shrine : Len Vi hā ra gē The Man and the Horse The New Shrine The Stupa The Footprints of the Buddha The Sacred Tree of Wisdom : Bō dhi ruk kha Isurumuni Lovers The Royal Family Mythical Beings: Kin na ra and Ap sa rā Comical Figures: Ga na or Vā ma na View of the City Across : Ti sā Væ va The Goldish Park : Ran ma su U ya na The Mystic Diagram For Those Who Love Ruins Earliest Sinhala Writing Monks of Isurumuni Fraternity 88 5
4 Sri Lanka has a cultural history that spans over two and a half millennia. It is one of the richest and most colourful island cultures in Asia. It is a culture enriched by four ethnic groups, - the Sinhalese, the Tamils, the Muslims and the Burghers; by four of the major religions of the world Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam; by two modern national languages Sinhala and Tamil; and by two classical languages - Sanskrit and Pali, the language of sacred Buddhist scriptures. Sri Lanka has ten UNESCO heritage sites and Anurādhapura ranks irst among them. It was the irst royal capital of the island kingdom and Preface is the most sacred pilgrim centre of Buddhists. Among the most sacred sites in Anuradhapura are the oldest tree in recorded history, Jaya Srī Mahā Bōdhi, and the three tallest brick buildings of the Old World, Jetavana Stūpa, Abhayagiri Stūpa and Ruvanvæli Sæya. One of the most picturesque sites in Anuradhapura is the Rock Temple known as Isurumuni, located by one of the oldest reservoirs, Tisā Vaeva. Among the most valuable sculptures here are the so-called Isurumuni Lovers and the sculpture of the Man and the Horse. Archaeologists, historians and critics of art have expressed different opinions about their meaning and signiicance. Adjoining the Temple is the famous royal park, known then as Ran Masu Uyana ( Gold Fish Park) where you will see not only baths decorated with sculptures of elephants playing in water but also natural caves. One of these caves exhibits a diagram that contains pictures of animals and symbols of geometric design. Archaeologists think that this may be the oldest map of the world or the universe. This book tells you in simple terms the signiicance of this Rock Temple, and will give you a taste of Sinhalese Buddhist culture. Two roads from Colombo will take you to Anuradhapura. One of them will go past Negombo and Puttalam. The other will take you through Kurunegala, where you will have a choice. You may either go via Padeniya and Galgamuwa or via Dambulla. May your visit to Isurumuniya be memorable. J.B. Disanayaka 2A, Pietersz Place, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.
5 The Old Cave Shrine 29
6 The sacred bōdhi tree 36
7 The Reclining Buddha image in the New Shrine 35
8 1. Anuradhapura About 200 km north of Colombo is Anuradhapura (a-nu-rā-da-pu-ra), the irst royal capital of this island kingdom. Sri Lanka was a land of kings for over two millennia, from the 4th century BCE to 1815, when the last king was captured by the British, making the island a colony of the British Empire. The glory of Anuradhapura as the royal capital lasted for a millennium and a half, from the fourth century BCE to the end of the tenth century. This phase is called the Anuradhapura Period in Sri Lankan History. Anuradhapura was a capital that saw the rise and fall of 113 kings, beginning from King Pandukabhaya, who founded it four centuries before Christ, and ending with King Mahinda V ( CE) who led to the south to escape the wrath of South Indian kings. The South Indian king, Rajaraja I ( CE) who was extending his Chola Empire, invaded Sri Lanka in 993 CE and occupied Anuradhapura and made it a part of his South Indian empire. He shifted the capital to Polonnaruva. Though the Sinhalese had held their own againt the Cholas in the tenth century, observes Prof. G.C.Mendis in his The Early History of 7 Ceylon, they found the mighty power of the Chola Empire under Rajaraja I too strong to resist. Hence Ceylon for the irst time came under the direct rule of a foreign power (p.52). At its height, Anuradhapura was one of the greatest cities of its age, functioning as the island s centre of both temporal and spiritual power, dotted with dozens of monasteries populated by as many as ten thousand monks one of the greatest monastic cities the world has ever seen. (Rough Guide to Sri Lanka,p.356) Anuradhapura was one of the carefully planned cities of the Old World. The chronicle, Mahā:vamsa, composed in Pali poetry in the ifth century, records how this city was built with such precision. Prof. G.P.Malalasekera, in his Dictionary of Pali Proper Names describes this city, as outlined in the Mahavamsa thus: Pandukabhaya beautiied the city with the artiicial lakes Jayavapi and Abhayavapi. It was round the last-named lake that the king laid out the city, including four suburbs, a cemetery, special villages for huntsmen and scavengers, temples to various pagan deities and residences for the engineers and other oficials. Abodes were
9 also provided for devotees of various sects, such as the Jains, the Ajivakas, wandering monks and brahmins. There were also hospitals and lying-inhomes. Guardians of the city Nagaraguttika - were appointed, one for the day and another or the night (p.83). The fame of the city spread to China, Greece, Rome and the Middle East. Monks from China visited Sri Lanka and Sinhalese monks visited China as early as the 5th century. One of them, Fa-Hsien, visited Ceylon around AD 412 and spent two years in this country. Sinhalese kings such as Mahanama sent embassies to Chinese emperors owing to their common interest in Buddhism from early in the ifth to the middle of the eighth century, when China reached the zenith of its power under the T ang dynasty ( ) (G.C.Mendis, The Early History of Ceylon p.58). A century later Sinhalese nuns were sent to China to establish an order of nuns. Traders from Egypt, subjects of the Roman Empire, visited the country, and small Roman copper coins of the fourth century at one time formed the bulk of the currency; they are found in quantities not only at almost every small port, but even at Sigiriya itself (H.W.Codrington, A Short History of Ceylon p.32). 8 Sri Lankan ambassadors were present in the Roman court as early as the third century BCE. The Romans called the inhabitants of this country, Salike or Salai, which appears in the writings of Pliny, the Romans who arrived in the island by accident. Greeks came to Sri Lanka as early as the irst century BCE in search of spices like pepper, ginger, cinnamon, muslins, pearls and precious stones, which they conveyed to Rome. King Pandukabhaya provided a living quarter for the Greeks in Anuradhapura. The irst map of Ceylon was drawn by a Greek named Ptolemy. Writes Codrington The earliest map of Ceylon which we possess is that of Ptolemy in the irst century after Christ and the two chief cities were the Royal City, Anurogrammon or Anuradhapura, and the Metropolis Maagrammon (Sanskrit Mahagrama) on the Mahaweli-ganga (p.3). The Arabs also came to the island in search of precious stones and spices. They called this island Serendip after the Sanskrit name Svarnadvipa meaning Golden Isle. Serendip later gave rise to the English word serendipity which means an apparent aptitude for making fortunate discoveries accidentally. The word was coined by the 18th century English writer
10 Horace Walpole, the author of The Three Princes of Serendip, in which the princes made such fortunate discoveries. The Anuradhapura Age saw the eflorescence of its literature, art and architecture and the glory of its hydraulic civilization. The modern city of Anuradhapura is divided into two: the Sacred City and the New Town. The Sacred City includes the so-called A ta mas tā na (The Eight Sacred Sites) and I su ru mu ni Temple, the subject matter of this book. 9
11 2. The Eight Sacred Sites The Eight Sacred Sites of Anuradhapura include a sacred tree, six stūpas and a chapterhouse : The sacred tree is called Jaya Srī Mahā Bōdhi, a branch of the Sacred Tree under which Prince Siddhartaha attained Enlightenment in Bodh Gaya in India six centuries before the birth of Christ. This branch was brought to Sri Lanka in the 3rd century BCE and survives as the oldest historical tree in the world. Ruvanvæli Sæya, is the great stūpa of the Mahavihara fraternity, built by King Dutugæmunu, the hero of the epic poem Mahavamsa. It rises to 300 ft. and is the third tallest stupa in Anuradhapura and third tallest brick-building of the Old World. Thūpārāma, is the irst Buddhist stūpa and irst Buddhist building in Anuradhapura. Built by Devanampiya Tissa, the irst Sinhalese Buddhist king, this stupa enshrines the collar-bone relic of the Buddha. It has circles of stone pillars which suggest that they once supported a roof. Abhayagiri Stūpa, is the great stūpa of the Abhayagiri fraternity, is 370 ft. tall. It is the second tallest stupa in Anuradhapura and second tallest brick-building of the Old World. It was built by King Vatta Gāmani Abhaya in the irst century before Christ. 10 Jētavana Stūpa, is the tallest stupa in Anuradhapura and tallest brick-building of the Old World. Its original height was 400 ft. It was built by King Mahasena in the third century BCE. He was the irst Sinhalese Buddhist king to patronize the Mahayana school of Buddhism. Mirisavæti Stūpa, is the irst stupa to be built by King Dutugæmunu, has four attractive structures called vāhalkada, frontispiece, facing the four directions. They are in different states of preservation and the sculptures of the western vāhalkada are among the best preserved. Lankārāma Stūpa, is the smallest of the stupas in Anuradhapura, is similar to Thuparama, in plan and layout. It also has circles of pillars which suggest that it was also a cētiya-ghara, a building that houses a stupa. Its name means the Monastery of Lanka. Lōvāmahapāya, is the Brazen Palace and was the chapter house of the Mahavihara. It has a collection of 1600 stone pillars, arranged in 40 rows each having 40 pillars. The original building had 9 storeys, with more than 1000 rooms and a roof covered with copper mixed with bronze, hence the name Brazen Palace.
12 Ruvanvæli Sæya 11
13 3. Isurumuniya Bordering on the southern outskirts of the sacred city of Anuradhapura is the ancient rock temple known as Isurumuni (pronounced i-su-ru-mu-ni). It centres around a cluster of gneiss boulders lying below the bund of the gigantic reservoir, Tisā Væva, constructed by King Devanampiya Tissa in the 3rd century B.C. For the Buddhist pilgrim, it is a sacred temple that has two cave shrines, the one with a seated Buddha image in stone and the other with a reclining Buddha. For the tourist, it is a site that has many outstanding stone carvings of aesthetic appeal and mythological value. his Ceylon, Pearl of the East : This monastery was built three centuries before the dawn of the Christian Era by Devanampiya Tissa, the irst Buddhist king of this Island. In the past, it covered a larger area than at present.it also included the area known today as Vessagiri, about a mile away to the south. In the past, it was called i-si-ra-ma-na or i-su-ru-me-nu which was translated into Pali as is-sa-ra-sa-ma-nā-rā-ma meaning the monastery where many princes and wealthy men were ordained. Among the princes was Arittha, a nephew of the king, who was a minister in the king s court. 12 It was one of the largest monasteries of Anuradhapura. Compared with the other sites in the sacred city, Isurumuni is modest: a small stūpa on the summit of a rock boulder, two cave shrines and an artiicial pond. Many English writers, some of whom were either members of the British civil service or scholars interested in the Orient, have written about Isurumuni. Harry Williams The English writer, Harry Williams, says in Here is the Isurumuniya rock temple, to my mind the most interesting and certainly the most beautiful of the Ceylon rock temples, although not to be compared in importance with the Kalugal wihara in Polonnaruha or the rock temple of Dambulla I found Isurumuniya the most exciting and romantic spot in the island with the exception of Sigiriya, although I cannot say why. The place seems to reek of romance and of the past, with that particular atmosphere which clings to the rocks and caves and calls to something atavistic in the most prosaic of men (p.151)
14 R. Raven-Hart R.Raven-Hart says, in his Ceylon History in Stone that the Isurumuniya rock-temple is quite the loveliest spot in Anuradhapura, It was the irst of the many rock-temples in Ceylon (p.19) Henry W.Cave Henry W. Cave, (Queen s College, Oxford) who wrote The Ruined Cities of Ceylon in 1897 says: Another very ancient and interesting foundation attributed to King Tissa is the Isurumuniya Temple. This curious building, carved out of the natural rock, occupies a romantic position. Before and behind it lie large lotus ponds The work at least 2000 years old. (p.84) on whose banks large crocodiles are generally to be seen To the right of the entrance will be noticed a large pokuna or bath. This is in good preservation and quite it for its original purpose of ceremonial ablution (p.47) Above the corner of the bath are the heads of four elephants, and above them is a sitting igure holding a horse (p.49) The doorway is magniicent, and for beautiful carving equals anything to be found in Ceylon (p.49) 13 The temple is unique in many respects and worthy of a thourough exploration. It was discovered about thirty years ago entirely hidden by jungle, and, of course, in a worse state than at present. (p.49) R. L. Brohier, The author of 'Discovering Ceylon' (1973) introduces Isurumuniya thus: In the loveliest part of old Anuradhapura, in a group of black granite boulders, there nestles the Isurumuniya cave temple. To be seen there at eye-level is a gallery of the inest pre-christian rock-carvings in bas relief known to the world of international archaeology. One of them is a portraiture popularly referred to as The Lovers. Some scholars are of the view that Isurumuniya became a centre of Mahayana Buddhism in Ceylon. It may also explain why it is not among the Eight Holy Sites (Ata-masthāna) at Anuradhapura even today. It is well known that the world of Buddhism today is divided into two main schools of thought: Theravada or Hinayana (the Southern School) and Mahayana (the Northern School).Today, ive countries constitute the Theravada School: Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
15 Sri Lanka was one of the earliest Theravada countries of the Buddhist world. Sage Mahinda, the son the great Indian emperor, Dharmashoka, was the one who introduced Theravada Buddhism to this country three centuries before the birth of Christ. It remained so until the days of King Voharikatissa ( A.D.) when unorthodox Mahayana beliefs were also introduced into Sri Lankan Buddhism. As a result, several Mahayana monuments came into being at Anuradahapura, the irst royal capital. Isurumuniya seems to be one of them. There was, however, a continuous struggle between the two factions for survival. With the shifting of royal patronage, from the one to the other, the construction projects of the loser came to a stand still. This explains why most of the Mahayana monuments in Sri Lanka are in a halfconstructed or half-inished state. In the belief of some scholars, this would account for the half developed nature of the Isurumuniya shrine. The sculpture of a man and a horse s head seems to have been abandoned before it was given inal perfection. This could be applied to all the friezes at Isurumuniya 14 Dr. Nandadeva Wijesekera Dr. Nandadeva Wijesekera, in his Ancient Paintings and Sculpture of Sri Lanka makes the following observations: On a lighter theme are the stone carvings at Isurumuniya belonging to the earlier period of Anuradhapura. These resemble the Gupta style in India. The most famous example of this style is the carving of the pair of lovers at Isurumuniya which no doubt bring to mind the amorous couple painted at Ajanta caves. The material used is a variety of soft limestone. Then there is another unique contribution, the moonstone. It is a gem of Sinhalese carving in stone. For its sheer beauty or its tastefully pleasing decorative design, it has no parallel anywhere in India or Sri Lanka. Semi-circular in shape, the moonstone resembles an open lotus lower cut into two and the cavings arranged in concentric circles depicting rows of lion, elephant, bull and geese Stone carvings such as makara heads on the balustrades, series of leaf and lowers, and a variety of images dwarfs, naga princes, guardians indicate a wealth of beauty that is truly wonderful (p.8-9).
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